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تُشكّل الممرات المظلمة والقصور المسكونة خلفيةً لحكايات العذاب النفسي والرغبات المحرّمة والرعب الخارق في بريطانيا العصر الفيكتوري وما وراءها. تتشابك شخصيات الأبطال المضادين الكئيبين والقطع الأثرية الملعونة والأسرار العائلية مع موضوعات الأخلاق والعلم والانحلال الاجتماعي في هذه الأعمال الغنية بالأجواء التي أسّست أدب الرعب كما نعرفه اليوم.

قوطي ملخصات الكتب

What Big Teeth

بقلم Rose Szabo • 2021

Eleanor returns to her family's isolated mansion to find monsters and an even darker matriarch.

3.36

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🐺 Werewolf Family 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere 🏚️ Isolated Mansion 🕯️ Dark Family Secret 🕸️ Manipulative Matriarch

What Big Teeth

Eleanor returns to her family's isolated mansion to find monsters and an even darker matriarch.

بقلم Rose Szabo 2021 394 صفحة

3.36

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🐺 Werewolf Family 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere 🏚️ Isolated Mansion 🕯️ Dark Family Secret 🕸️ Manipulative Matriarch

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

بقلم Oscar Wilde • 1891

An eternal youth wish leaves him flawless, but his hidden portrait decays with every sin.

4.08

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🥀 Decadent Literature 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Victorian London 😇 Corrupted Innocence ☠️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Double Life

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

An eternal youth wish leaves him flawless, but his hidden portrait decays with every sin.

بقلم Oscar Wilde 1891 320 صفحة

4.08

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🥀 Decadent Literature 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Victorian London 😇 Corrupted Innocence ☠️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Double Life

The Invited

بقلم Jennifer McMahon • 2019

A house built from a witch's curse. A girl digging for treasure. A bog that never forgets.

3.80

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🖤 Rural Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🔍 Missing Mother 🏠 Found Family 🩸 Generational Trauma

The Invited

A house built from a witch's curse. A girl digging for treasure. A bog that never forgets.

بقلم Jennifer McMahon 2019 353 صفحة

3.80

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🖤 Rural Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🔍 Missing Mother 🏠 Found Family 🩸 Generational Trauma

Doll Parts

بقلم Penny Zang • 2025

Posthumous letters from her dead best friend force a new mother to confront their buried secret.

3.53

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🕯️ Dark Academia 💔 Toxic Friendship 🤝 Fatal Pact 🔍 Cold Case 🏚️ Suburban Gothic

Doll Parts

Posthumous letters from her dead best friend force a new mother to confront their buried secret.

بقلم Penny Zang 2025 400 صفحة

3.53

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🕯️ Dark Academia 💔 Toxic Friendship 🤝 Fatal Pact 🔍 Cold Case 🏚️ Suburban Gothic

Rebel Angels

بقلم Libba Bray • 2004

When magic bleeds into Victorian London, a schoolgirl must find its source before a sorceress does.

3.94

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🏫 Magical Boarding School 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🚪 Portal Fantasy 🕵️ Secret Society 👯 Female Friendship

Rebel Angels

When magic bleeds into Victorian London, a schoolgirl must find its source before a sorceress does.

بقلم Libba Bray 2004 548 صفحة

3.94

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🏫 Magical Boarding School 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🚪 Portal Fantasy 🕵️ Secret Society 👯 Female Friendship

The Midnight Witch

بقلم Paula Brackston • 2014

A young duchess inherits a necromantic coven, loves an outsider, and a rival order closes in.

3.57

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🦴 Necromancy 🎩 Edwardian London 🌙 Coven Politics 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 💕 Witch Romance

The Midnight Witch

A young duchess inherits a necromantic coven, loves an outsider, and a rival order closes in.

بقلم Paula Brackston 2014 341 صفحة

3.57

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🦴 Necromancy 🎩 Edwardian London 🌙 Coven Politics 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 💕 Witch Romance

Lovely Wicked Things

بقلم Trisha Wolfe • 2024

A criminologist falls for a chaos magician who erased her memory of their shared kill.

4.08

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🏛️ Dark Academia 🔪 Serial Killer Romance 🖤 Obsessive Antihero 💔 Trauma Bonded 🦌 Predator And Prey

Lovely Wicked Things

A criminologist falls for a chaos magician who erased her memory of their shared kill.

بقلم Trisha Wolfe 2024 384 صفحة

4.08

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🏛️ Dark Academia 🔪 Serial Killer Romance 🖤 Obsessive Antihero 💔 Trauma Bonded 🦌 Predator And Prey

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

بقلم James Malcolm Rymer • 1845

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

3.40

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🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

بقلم James Malcolm Rymer 1845 809 صفحة

3.40

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🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

The Ordeals

بقلم Rachel Greenlaw • 2025

A magical blood contract holds her captive. A dark academy's deadly trials could set her free.

3.90

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🏛️ Dark Academia Fantasy ⚔️ Deadly Magical Trials 🖤 Found Family 🧬 Hidden Heritage 💕 Allies To Lovers

The Ordeals

A magical blood contract holds her captive. A dark academy's deadly trials could set her free.

بقلم Rachel Greenlaw 2025 384 صفحة

3.90

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🏛️ Dark Academia Fantasy ⚔️ Deadly Magical Trials 🖤 Found Family 🧬 Hidden Heritage 💕 Allies To Lovers

The Little Stranger

بقلم Sarah Waters • 2009

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

3.57

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🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety 🥀 Gothic Decay 🔥 Slow Burn Dread

The Little Stranger

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

بقلم Sarah Waters 2009 512 صفحة

3.57

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🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety 🥀 Gothic Decay 🔥 Slow Burn Dread

Winter Rose

بقلم Patricia A. McKillip • 1996

To free the cursed heir she loves, she must follow him into the fae winter woods.

3.86

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🌹 Tam Lin Retelling ✨ Lyrical Fantasy 🏚️ Gothic Manor 🥀 Melancholic Romance 🩸 Cursed Bloodline

Winter Rose

To free the cursed heir she loves, she must follow him into the fae winter woods.

بقلم Patricia A. McKillip 1996 262 صفحة

3.86

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🌹 Tam Lin Retelling ✨ Lyrical Fantasy 🏚️ Gothic Manor 🥀 Melancholic Romance 🩸 Cursed Bloodline

Delicious Monsters

بقلم Liselle Sambury • 2023

A teen medium inherits a mansion that devours pain, where forgotten girls' ghosts demand justice.

4.03

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🏚️ Haunted House 👻 Ghost Possession 🧬 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets ⏳ Dual Timelines

Delicious Monsters

A teen medium inherits a mansion that devours pain, where forgotten girls' ghosts demand justice.

بقلم Liselle Sambury 2023 512 صفحة

4.03

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🏚️ Haunted House 👻 Ghost Possession 🧬 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets ⏳ Dual Timelines

American Supernatural Tales

بقلم S.T. Joshi • 2007

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

4.01

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🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction ✍️ Literary Horror 🏠 Haunted House

American Supernatural Tales

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

بقلم S.T. Joshi 2007 467 صفحة

4.01

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🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction ✍️ Literary Horror 🏠 Haunted House

A Land So Wide

بقلم Erin A. Craig • 2025

To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.

3.57

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🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 🌾 Folk Horror 🩸 Hidden Heritage 🦴 Supernatural Transformation 💔 Forbidden Romance

A Land So Wide

To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.

بقلم Erin A. Craig 2025 352 صفحة

3.57

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🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 🌾 Folk Horror 🩸 Hidden Heritage 🦴 Supernatural Transformation 💔 Forbidden Romance

How to Survive a Horror Story

بقلم Mallory Arnold • 2025

A deadly will traps writers in a hungry manor: confess your sins or become its next meal.

3.62

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🪞 Meta Horror 🔪 Survival Horror 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🎲 Deadly Game 🏠 Sentient House

How to Survive a Horror Story

A deadly will traps writers in a hungry manor: confess your sins or become its next meal.

بقلم Mallory Arnold 2025 368 صفحة

3.62

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🪞 Meta Horror 🔪 Survival Horror 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🎲 Deadly Game 🏠 Sentient House

The Turnglass

بقلم Gareth Rubin • 2023

A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.

3.46

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🔀 Dual Timeline Mystery 🕯️ Literary Gothic 🔐 Generational Secrets 📖 Book Within A Book ⛓️ Inherited Guilt

The Turnglass

A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.

بقلم Gareth Rubin 2023 512 صفحة

3.46

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🔀 Dual Timeline Mystery 🕯️ Literary Gothic 🔐 Generational Secrets 📖 Book Within A Book ⛓️ Inherited Guilt

When She Was Me

بقلم Marlee Bush • 2024

After a teen vanishes from their campground, a sleepwalking twin fears she might be the killer.

3.32

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌿 Southern Gothic 👯 Twin Sisters 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Codependent Siblings

When She Was Me

After a teen vanishes from their campground, a sleepwalking twin fears she might be the killer.

بقلم Marlee Bush 2024 400 صفحة

3.32

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌿 Southern Gothic 👯 Twin Sisters 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Codependent Siblings

Bad Dreams in the Night

بقلم Adam Ellis • 2024

A person's nightmares pull them into a decaying house, where a family curse frays sanity.

4.19

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🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🔮 Family Curse 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🏠 Decaying Mansion

Bad Dreams in the Night

A person's nightmares pull them into a decaying house, where a family curse frays sanity.

بقلم Adam Ellis 2024 256 صفحة

4.19

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🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🔮 Family Curse 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🏠 Decaying Mansion

A Dark and Secret Magic

بقلم Wallis Kinney • 2024

A hedge witch shelters the rival who betrayed her as a death god's pact comes due.

3.88

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🔮 Gothic Witch Romance 🖤 Enemies To Lovers 💔 Forbidden Love 📖 Magical Inheritance 🏡 Found Family

A Dark and Secret Magic

A hedge witch shelters the rival who betrayed her as a death god's pact comes due.

بقلم Wallis Kinney 2024 320 صفحة

3.88

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🔮 Gothic Witch Romance 🖤 Enemies To Lovers 💔 Forbidden Love 📖 Magical Inheritance 🏡 Found Family

La hija de la noche

بقلم Laura Gallego García • 2004

Her cellar holds a vampire. Her blood is his leash. The village wants them dead.

3.46

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🩸 Gothic Vampire Romance 💔 Cursed Lover 🔥 Small Town Hysteria 🇫🇷 19th Century France 🏚️ Isolated Mansion

La hija de la noche

Her cellar holds a vampire. Her blood is his leash. The village wants them dead.

بقلم Laura Gallego García 2004 196 صفحة

3.46

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🩸 Gothic Vampire Romance 💔 Cursed Lover 🔥 Small Town Hysteria 🇫🇷 19th Century France 🏚️ Isolated Mansion

The Cruel Dark

بقلم Bea Northwick • 2023

An amnesiac arrives at a crumbling manor where the professor's dead wife refuses to stay buried.

4.03

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🏚️ Gothic Romance 🌫️ Haunted Manor 💀 Psychological Horror 👰 Dead Wife's Shadow 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

The Cruel Dark

An amnesiac arrives at a crumbling manor where the professor's dead wife refuses to stay buried.

بقلم Bea Northwick 2023 226 صفحة

4.03

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🏚️ Gothic Romance 🌫️ Haunted Manor 💀 Psychological Horror 👰 Dead Wife's Shadow 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

The Sword of the Lictor

بقلم Gene Wolfe • 1982

A torturer flees his mountain city into a dying world, carrying a relic that resurrects the dead.

4.23

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🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌑 Dying World 🤔 Philosophical Fantasy 🏰 Gothic Atmosphere 👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood

The Sword of the Lictor

A torturer flees his mountain city into a dying world, carrying a relic that resurrects the dead.

بقلم Gene Wolfe 1982 279 صفحة

4.23

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🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌑 Dying World 🤔 Philosophical Fantasy 🏰 Gothic Atmosphere 👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood

أميرة الساعة

بقلم كاساندرا كلير • 2013

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

4.55

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🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle ✨ Immortal Heroine 💗 Hidden Love

أميرة الساعة

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

بقلم كاساندرا كلير 2013 567 صفحة

4.55

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🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle ✨ Immortal Heroine 💗 Hidden Love

The Puzzle Master

بقلم Danielle Trussoni • 2023

A puzzle savant decodes an inmate's blood cipher: murder, a demon, and a deadly secret.

3.31

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🔮 Occult Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 👁️ Possession Horror ✡️ Jewish Mysticism 📜 Ancient Codes

The Puzzle Master

A puzzle savant decodes an inmate's blood cipher: murder, a demon, and a deadly secret.

بقلم Danielle Trussoni 2023 362 صفحة

3.31

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🔮 Occult Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 👁️ Possession Horror ✡️ Jewish Mysticism 📜 Ancient Codes

Portrait of a Shadow

بقلم Meriam Metoui • 2024

Mae's sister vanished. The only clue: a white painting whose peeling corner hides something hungry.

3.27

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🏚️ Modern Gothic 🖼️ Cursed Painting 🔍 Missing Sister 🤝 Faustian Bargain 💔 Queer Tragedy

Portrait of a Shadow

Mae's sister vanished. The only clue: a white painting whose peeling corner hides something hungry.

بقلم Meriam Metoui 2024 251 صفحة

3.27

٢٩٧ تقييم

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🖼️ Cursed Painting 🔍 Missing Sister 🤝 Faustian Bargain 💔 Queer Tragedy

The Darkness Within Us

بقلم Tricia Levenseller • 2024

After killing her husband for his fortune, a young widow faces an heir with demon blood.

3.87

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🏰 Gothic Fantasy Romance 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Morally Grey Heroine 🐺 Monster Love Interest 👑 Sibling Rivalry

The Darkness Within Us

After killing her husband for his fortune, a young widow faces an heir with demon blood.

بقلم Tricia Levenseller 2024 336 صفحة

3.87

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🏰 Gothic Fantasy Romance 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Morally Grey Heroine 🐺 Monster Love Interest 👑 Sibling Rivalry

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

بقلم Edgar Allan Poe • 1843

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

4.36

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

بقلم Edgar Allan Poe 1843 688 صفحة

4.36

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

Hide

بقلم Kiersten White • 2022

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

3.31

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🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

Hide

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

بقلم Kiersten White 2022 243 صفحة

3.31

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🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

The Minotaur

بقلم Barbara Vine • 2005

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

3.65

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🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense 👪 Eccentric Family 🕰️ Slow Burn Mystery

The Minotaur

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

بقلم Barbara Vine 2005 341 صفحة

3.65

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🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense 👪 Eccentric Family 🕰️ Slow Burn Mystery

The Wolf and the Woodsman

بقلم Ava Reid • 2021

A magicless woman betrayed by her village allies with the scarred prince sent to capture her.

3.50

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🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 👑 Political Intrigue

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A magicless woman betrayed by her village allies with the scarred prince sent to capture her.

بقلم Ava Reid 2021 448 صفحة

3.50

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🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 👑 Political Intrigue

Heartless Heathens

بقلم Santana Knox • 2022

A belltower captive, three heathen heirs, and a dark mission that claims her as the prize.

3.92

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🕯️ Gothic Captivity ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Found Family 🩹 Trauma Healing ⛓️ Captor-Captive

Heartless Heathens

A belltower captive, three heathen heirs, and a dark mission that claims her as the prize.

بقلم Santana Knox 2022 406 صفحة

3.92

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🕯️ Gothic Captivity ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Found Family 🩹 Trauma Healing ⛓️ Captor-Captive

Blackthorn

بقلم J.T. Geissinger • 2025

A witch returns for a funeral. The body vanishes, and only her cursed ex-lover can help.

3.79

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Generational Curse 🏚️ Gothic Manor Romance 🔮 Witch Family Saga 🌫️ Eerie Small Town

Blackthorn

A witch returns for a funeral. The body vanishes, and only her cursed ex-lover can help.

بقلم J.T. Geissinger 2025 368 صفحة

3.79

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Generational Curse 🏚️ Gothic Manor Romance 🔮 Witch Family Saga 🌫️ Eerie Small Town

Dreadful

بقلم Greer Rivers • 2023

A mafia enforcer loves the woman hunting his family, unaware she saved him as a child.

4.10

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🖤 Mafia Revenge 🎭 Dark Retelling 💔 Childhood Trauma Bond 📜 Revenge Hit List 🩹 Scarred Heroine

Dreadful

A mafia enforcer loves the woman hunting his family, unaware she saved him as a child.

بقلم Greer Rivers 2023 416 صفحة

4.10

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🖤 Mafia Revenge 🎭 Dark Retelling 💔 Childhood Trauma Bond 📜 Revenge Hit List 🩹 Scarred Heroine

منزل ستارلينغ

بقلم أليكس إي. هارو • 2023

A desperate woman takes a job inside a sentient house. Below the floors, old nightmares stir.

3.78

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🏠 Sentient House 🩸 Generational Trauma 🤝 Found Family

منزل ستارلينغ

A desperate woman takes a job inside a sentient house. Below the floors, old nightmares stir.

بقلم أليكس إي. هارو 2023 308 صفحة

3.78

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🏠 Sentient House 🩸 Generational Trauma 🤝 Found Family

الفتيات المحطمات

بقلم سيمون سانت جيمس • 2018

A skeleton in a boarding school well sends a journalist back to her sister's unsolved death.

4.05

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🏰 Gothic Boarding School 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Cold Case Investigation 📰 Journalist Sleuth 🏘️ Small Town Corruption

الفتيات المحطمات

A skeleton in a boarding school well sends a journalist back to her sister's unsolved death.

بقلم سيمون سانت جيمس 2018 336 صفحة

4.05

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🏰 Gothic Boarding School 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Cold Case Investigation 📰 Journalist Sleuth 🏘️ Small Town Corruption

The Second Death of Locke

بقلم V.L. Bovalino • 2025

The hidden heir of a sunken magical isle must trade her mage's freedom to restore it.

3.86

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🔗 Magical Bond 👑 Hidden Heir 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Divine Bargain 🏠 Found Family

The Second Death of Locke

The hidden heir of a sunken magical isle must trade her mage's freedom to restore it.

بقلم V.L. Bovalino 2025 481 صفحة

3.86

٢٩٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🔗 Magical Bond 👑 Hidden Heir 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Divine Bargain 🏠 Found Family

Losing Neverland

بقلم Evelyn Montgomery • 2024

Peter Pan returns as dark Captain Hook, dragging grown Wendy to a Neverland ruled by obsession.

3.72

٢٬٠٠٠+

🖤 Dark Fairytale Retelling ⚔️ Villain Gets The Girl 🖤 Obsessive Love 💫 First Love Returns 🔮 Fated Love Curse

Losing Neverland

Peter Pan returns as dark Captain Hook, dragging grown Wendy to a Neverland ruled by obsession.

بقلم Evelyn Montgomery 2024

3.72

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🖤 Dark Fairytale Retelling ⚔️ Villain Gets The Girl 🖤 Obsessive Love 💫 First Love Returns 🔮 Fated Love Curse

Bad Things Happened in This Room

بقلم Marie Still • 2025

She's trapped in a house where a room whispers of a crime she can't recall.

3.33

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🏡 Domestic Gothic 🤯 Unreliable Narrator 💡 Gaslighting 👧 Missing Child

Bad Things Happened in This Room

She's trapped in a house where a room whispers of a crime she can't recall.

بقلم Marie Still 2025 304 صفحة

3.33

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🏡 Domestic Gothic 🤯 Unreliable Narrator 💡 Gaslighting 👧 Missing Child

Beautiful Chaos

بقلم Kami Garcia • 2011

A Southern boy's girlfriend broke the rules of magic. Now he must pay the price.

3.92

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Sacrificial Hero 🔮 Prophecy ⭐ Star-Crossed Lovers 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

Beautiful Chaos

A Southern boy's girlfriend broke the rules of magic. Now he must pay the price.

بقلم Kami Garcia 2011 523 صفحة

3.92

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Sacrificial Hero 🔮 Prophecy ⭐ Star-Crossed Lovers 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

Rouge

بقلم Mona Awad • 2023

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

3.53

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🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror 🌀 Fractured Psyche 📖 Fairy Tale Horror

Rouge

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

بقلم Mona Awad 2023 383 صفحة

3.53

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🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror 🌀 Fractured Psyche 📖 Fairy Tale Horror

Angelology

بقلم Danielle Trussoni • 2010

An orphaned nun uncovers a secret war over angels and learns she carries their blood.

3.45

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🗝️ Secret Society 👼 Angel Lore 🩸 Hidden Bloodline ⏳ Dual Timeline ⛪ Gothic Convent

Angelology

An orphaned nun uncovers a secret war over angels and learns she carries their blood.

بقلم Danielle Trussoni 2010 464 صفحة

3.45

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🗝️ Secret Society 👼 Angel Lore 🩸 Hidden Bloodline ⏳ Dual Timeline ⛪ Gothic Convent

An Academy for Liars

بقلم Alexis Henderson • 2024

A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.

3.43

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🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Occult College ⚠️ Dangerous Mentor 💔 Rivals To Lovers 🧠 Psychic Manipulation

An Academy for Liars

A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.

بقلم Alexis Henderson 2024 464 صفحة

3.43

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🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Occult College ⚠️ Dangerous Mentor 💔 Rivals To Lovers 🧠 Psychic Manipulation

Spells for Forgetting

بقلم Adrienne Young • 2022

After fourteen years, August Salt returns to the island where a girl's drowning whispers his name.

3.85

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🖤 Small Town Gothic 🍂 Folk Magic 💔 Second Chance Romance 🌙 Friends To Lovers 🔑 Generational Secrets

Spells for Forgetting

After fourteen years, August Salt returns to the island where a girl's drowning whispers his name.

بقلم Adrienne Young 2022 351 صفحة

3.85

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🖤 Small Town Gothic 🍂 Folk Magic 💔 Second Chance Romance 🌙 Friends To Lovers 🔑 Generational Secrets

أنا أسطورة

بقلم ريتشارد ماثيسون • 1954

The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.

4.05

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🧛 Vampire Pandemic 🌍 Last Man On Earth 🏠 Makeshift Fortress 🔬 Scientific Rationalism 😈 Protagonist As Monster

أنا أسطورة

The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.

بقلم ريتشارد ماثيسون 1954 101 صفحة

4.05

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🧛 Vampire Pandemic 🌍 Last Man On Earth 🏠 Makeshift Fortress 🔬 Scientific Rationalism 😈 Protagonist As Monster

The Devil Rides Out

بقلم Dennis Wheatley • 1934

An occultist duke and his American friend battle a black magician to reclaim a man's soul.

3.77

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🕵️ Occult Detective 🕯️ Secret Satanic Cult 🌑 Occult Initiation 🔮 Ritual Magic 🏃 Supernatural Pursuit

The Devil Rides Out

An occultist duke and his American friend battle a black magician to reclaim a man's soul.

بقلم Dennis Wheatley 1934 320 صفحة

3.77

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🕵️ Occult Detective 🕯️ Secret Satanic Cult 🌑 Occult Initiation 🔮 Ritual Magic 🏃 Supernatural Pursuit

The Queen's Bargain

بقلم Anne Bishop • 2020

A warlord prince's dark power turns against him, threatening his marriage and his realm.

4.19

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🖤 Dark Fantasy Romance 🌹 Sensual Magic 🏠 Found Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🔥 Redemption Arc

The Queen's Bargain

A warlord prince's dark power turns against him, threatening his marriage and his realm.

بقلم Anne Bishop 2020 414 صفحة

4.19

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🖤 Dark Fantasy Romance 🌹 Sensual Magic 🏠 Found Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🔥 Redemption Arc

سحر الأشواك

بقلم مارغريت روجرسون • 2019

Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.

4.04

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📚 Sentient Libraries 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 👹 Demon Companion 🤝 Demon Bargains

سحر الأشواك

Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.

بقلم مارغريت روجرسون 2019 456 صفحة

4.04

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📚 Sentient Libraries 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 👹 Demon Companion 🤝 Demon Bargains

Catching Pretty

بقلم Sienna Blake • 2025

Held captive in a crumbling mansion, she belongs to a man who calls her suffering salvation.

4.18

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🖤 Captor Captive Romance 💔 Love Triangle 🔥 Possessive Hero 🌧️ Damaged Heroine 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Catching Pretty

Held captive in a crumbling mansion, she belongs to a man who calls her suffering salvation.

بقلم Sienna Blake 2025

4.18

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🖤 Captor Captive Romance 💔 Love Triangle 🔥 Possessive Hero 🌧️ Damaged Heroine 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Ghosts

بقلم Edith Wharton • 1937

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

3.85

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🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

Ghosts

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

بقلم Edith Wharton 1937 288 صفحة

3.85

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🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

Powers of Darkness

بقلم Valdimar Ásmundsson • 1901

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

3.63

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🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Powers of Darkness

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

بقلم Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901 309 صفحة

3.63

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🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

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